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ἐλεφαντόκωπος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἐλεφαντόκωπος ἐλεφαντόκωπον

Structure: ἐλεφαντοκωπ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: kw/ph

Sense

  1. ivory-hilted

Examples

  • δύο ϝοι φῶτε μόνουσ ἁμαρτεῖν λέγει, περὶ φαιδίμοισι δ’ ὤμοισ ξίφοσ ἔχειν <ἐλεφαντόκωπον (Bacchylides, , dithyrambs, ode 18 4:1)

Synonyms

  1. ivory-hilted

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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